Entries from April 2011

As a rule, I do not watch any women’s sports programs. Ladies, you may call me a chauvinist pig or any other name you wish but I don’t find any of them the least bit exciting. All female tennis players do is grunt every time they hit the ball (come to think of it, the men do, too); softball is about as thrilling as a soccer game with scores ...
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The East Jackson Lady Eagles golf team saw its season come to a close last week, as the Eagles took part in the 8AA Region Tournament at Scales Creek Country Club in Banks County. The Lady Eagles placed ninth with a score of 241. They trailed region champion Elbert County (169), Jefferson (178), Banks County (182), Jackson County (204), Hart ...
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As part of Tuesday’s budget discussions by the Barrow County Board of Commissioners, chairman Danny Yearwood tossed several ideas on the table of ways to increase county revenues. Among those ideas was to raise the minimum acreage required for a landowner to qualify for the conservation use exemption. Under conservation use, a landowner signs ...
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The Barrow County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday rejected a request by the president of the Barrow County Builders Association to immediately reduce the minimum size of new homes in the county. Association president Tony Trusty said that his group’s request last year for multiple changes to the Unified Development Code have been narrowed ...
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Some Nicholson residents are concerned about a veterans memorial being removed from the town’s public library. At the monthly work session meeting of the Nicholson City Council Thursday night, April 21, two local residents voiced their concern about the recent removal of the military wall of honor at the Harold S. Swindle Public Library. The ...
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Sometimes its scarcely noticeable, but the unemployment rate in Georgia — and Jackson County — continues to trend downward. The Georgia Department of Labor announced Monday that the state’s preliminary unemployment rate was 10 percent, down two-tenths of a percent from February. Jackson County’s jobless rate for March is pegged at 10 ...
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An Oxford, AL, man insisted to Commerce Police officers that he could not be arrested for sitting on his porch cursing, but it turned out he was wrong. Roger Eugene Diekmann, 34, 5 Heatherwood Lane, Oxford, AL, was arrested for disorderly conduct after an incident at Country Boys RV Park, Mt. Olive Road. Responding to a report of a man cursing, ...
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WINDER – Evelyn Patrick Randolph, 102, died Thursday, April 28, 2011. Born in Jackson County, she was the daughter of the late Bert Emory Patrick Sr. and Ora Tallulah Brown Patrick. She was a homemaker. Mrs. Randolph was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. W.T. Randolph; sons, Dr. R.H. Randolph, Lt. Col. John Randolph, and Dr. W.T. ...
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ATHENS – Doris Kittle Harris, 80, died Thursday, April 28, 2011. A native of Athens, she was the daughter of the late Elijah and Alma Bray Kittle and was preceded in death by her husband, Douglas Lamar Harris. Survivors include daughters, Brenda Cunningham and husband, Kenneth, Hull, Patti Worley and husband, Carl, Commerce, Cassandra Dawson ...
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NICHOLSON – Michayla Lynn Staton, 15, died Thursday, April 28, 2011, at her residence. She was the daughter of Casey (Sharan) Station of Athens and Deborah Scogin (Lewis) Ward of Nicholson. She was a student at East Jackson Comprehensive High School. Survivors in addition to her parents include a brother, Dylan Staton, Athens; and sister, ...
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